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Attempted murder of American treasure hunter by his partners" is foiled in the Philippines!
An American treasure hunter, that was held hostage for almost two years after his former partners filed a fake rape charge, was released a few weeks ago in the Philippines. This was after testimony by nine witnesses, including the alleged victim", cleared him of all charges and implicated his former partners in attempting to murder him in the frame-up" death penalty case!
NEWS RELEASE
May 10, 2002, Los Angeles, California, USA
Attempted murder of American treasure hunter by his partners" is foiled in the Philippines!
An American treasure hunter, that was held hostage for almost two years after his former partners filed a fake rape charge, was released a few weeks ago in the Philippines. This was after testimony by nine witnesses, including the alleged victim", cleared him of all charges and implicated his former partners in attempting to murder him in the frame-up" death penalty case!
Dennis Standefer, now 56, from San Pedro, California, was arrested on August 23, 1999 in Jakarta, just thirteen days after a fake and fabricated rape charge was filled in Surigao City on the island of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines. The case was first reported and filed on August 10, 1999 by Karl Steven Ryll, 41, (a former partner of Standefers for six years who is now working his treasure salvage projects in the Philippines) and Niefelyn Sumaylo, who was Standefers former fiancée.
The false report claimed that she was raped at 4pm on a public beach during the the second week of November in 1994" and that her life was threatened" making this a no bail/death sentience offence. Karl Steven Ryll, 41, fabricated and wrote this story" and the woman was coerced by Ryll, Colonel Segundo Duran of the Philippine National Police (PNP), and Commander Tony Nasa, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), into signing this totally false statement. When Niefelyn at first refused to sign the false statement, she was then offered a $100,000 USD payment by Ryll and told that the case would NEVER GO TO TRIAL and that the statement was just being used to have Standefer arrested in Jakarta and to get him to pay $600,000 that Ryll falsely claimed he owed him.
There was no rape reported by Niefelyn Sumaylo in 1994 to the police, to her parents, to any doctor, or anyone else! This case could never have been prosecuted legally in the Philippines, seeing it was filed six years later and was lacking any medical evidence or any other witnesses. There also was no preliminary investigation or hearing held as required by Philippine law!
Standefer, who is now married to a niece of the new Indonesian President, Megawati Sukarnoputri, has a grown daughter in the United States and a 21 month old baby in Indonesia, is now in hiding at a undisclosed location, as Ryll, Morgan, and his associates continue to try to have him killed and extradited back to the Philippines on their new fake case.
Since early 1998 I have been the target of murder conspiracy headed by Karl Steven Ryll (South Pasadena, California) with the assistance and financing of Harold Karaka, Steven Edward Morgan, 53, (San Pedro, California) Tom and Terry Anderson (Henderson, Nevada), and a few others, including a Philippines National Police Colonel, Segundo Duran, and a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Commander, Tony Nasa."
The goal of the group was to take over a multimillion-dollar salvage operation on Japanese WW II Shipwrecks and other shipwreck sites located and researched by Standefer. They first tried having me killed outright, and later by using their legal" means with the Philippine justice system (sic) after several direct attempts failed. Morgan, Ryll, and Duran are currently conducting treasure salvage operations off the island of Palawan in the Southern Philippines."
The legal" means that Ryll and his associates undertook was to have a phony rape charge by my ex-fiancée filled by Colonel Duran, who was former associate of mine in the salvage project and who was NOT ACTING IN ANY OFFICAL CAPASITY, and by Karl Ryll. This rape" charge, which allegedly took place during the first two weeks of November 1994, was not filed or reported until August of 1999; right after Karl Ryll, Segundo Duran, and Tony Nasa visited and coerced the woman. This charge carries the death penalty in the Philippines. Ryll then traveled to Manila where he used the Philippine office of ECPAT to assist him in this frame-up and filed his case", as he is the only complainant on the Interpol arrest request. ECPAT never even interviewed Niefelyn and never contacted her! They just listened to Rylls story and took his money!
Ryll then hand carried these documents and his bribe money to Jakarta and had me arrested. He has admitted in Jakarta newspapers that he paid the police $2,500 USD to have me arrested. The total sum today he has paid lawyers, Philippine and Indonesian police, judges, prosecutors, and travel for at least a dozen trips to Southeast Asia certainly exceeds $100,000 USD."
The woman in question, Niefelyn Sumaylo is also the registered owner of the stock of the salvage company that holds shipwreck salvage rights to work in the Philippines. I set up this company in 1997; three years after the alleged rape took place, and after she and her parents signed a notarized statement giving their permission and desire for her to marry me. Niefelyn is now married, has three children, and is living in poverty in a small town (300 people) on Siargao Island off the north coast of Mindanao. This is where Ryll, Duran, and Nasa went in August 1999 and had the fake charges filled. Rylls signature appears on the original arrest warrant dated 8-13-1999, which was issued illegally by an assistant prosecutor without any preliminary investigation or hearing as required by Philippine law."
As with most conspiracies and lies, Ryll (fortunately for me) made numerous mistakes when he made up this story. As Ryll made up this story" almost five years after the fact, the first thing he got wrong was the date. I was not in the Philippines during the first two weeks of November 1994, as proven by my passport and a document received from the Philippine Immigration Department by the American Embassy in Manila. I was never on the island of Surigao in 1994 (at anytime) where the fake rape" took place. I never had any kind of sexual relationship with Niefelyn in 1994. I did start a relationship with her in the summer in 1995 with the complete knowledge and approval of her family and she traveled to Malaysia in 1996 with her chaperone, Ida Duran (Where we were to be married) the 2nd wife of Colonel Segundo Duran. Due to legal requirements, we could not complete our marriage plans at the time, and we traveled to Hong Kong for several weeks. We then returned to Malaysia where we had hoped her parents could join us for the wedding."
The rape" charge that Ryll filed, says nothing all of this, of course. The statement ends after I supposedly raped her on a public beach at 4:00 in the afternoon and then threatened to kill her. This is the same woman that I supported with English lessons, food, medical expenses, passport and visa costs, and travel expenses to Malaysia with her chaperon (1996) from late 1995 on. I also paid $1,000s of dollars for her mothers medical and living expenses when she was in an accident and broke her leg. I broke off the relationship in early 1999 after I sent her $2,000 USD and prepaid airfare to join me in Hong Kong and she disappeared" with the money. (I found out later that she was already married at the time and had two children. She just had a third child in February 2001)".
Harold Karaka, who represents himself as a licensed private investigator In California (No records of this with the licensing bureau, came to Jakarta in late 1999 after his, Ryll's, Durans, and Nasa's failed attempt to kill me in Zamboanga in April 1998, and after sending Steve Cheney (Who was brought into the platinum recovery project by Tom Anderson, but provided no capital) to Sabah, Malaysia to try get the items that I had purchased and to kill me. Karaka also made several attempts to find me in Singapore and Hong Kong, by hiring private investigators.
Both Ryll and Karaka have threatened to kill me or have me killed by phone (Karaka), fax (Karaka), e-mail (Ryll-Karaka), in person (Karaka) and to numerous third parties by phone, fax, e-mail, and in person, They have also threatened to kill my pregnant daughter and she has had to go into hiding for almost two years. I have a tape recording of Karaka threatening to kill me three times in a one-hour conversation with me in early 1998, which was recorded while I was in Malaysia. I also have numerous threatening e-mails, and faxes from both Karaka and Ryll, including an email, which was filed with the FBI in 1998 and again in 1999. These e-mail details how they are going to have me arrested, put me in a Philippine jail, and killed there by prisoners. They also threatened to kill my daughter, Ed Jones, and my friends. This was sent two years before the fake rape" charge was even filed. Steven Morgan had also threatened to have me killed in 1995 when he took over the Charleston Recovery Project in the Philippines. A copy of this death threat was recorded and made available to the United States Embassy in Manila and the FBI office there.
Fake rape charges are filed by Filipino women against foreigners and Filipino political figures and number in the hundreds every year. These set-up" cases are filed by prostitutes, bar girls, pen pals, and girl friends, with the help of police to extort huge sums of money from tourist, expatriates, or are used for political gains.
It is a case where a group of partners decided to conspire and take over a 100 million-dollar plus shipwreck salvage project in the Philippines and they are willing to say and do anything to get what they want.
Since early 1998, Ryll and Karaka have posted hundreds of libelous, slanderous, and completely fabricated stories on Internet Websites and made statements in bought and paid" one-sided news releases and television interviews, in the Philippines, Indonesia, and the USA. Including a story of how Standefer killed a hundred people in Mindanao when he destroyed a mountain with dynamite in 1995 while looking for treasure and murdering a Seattle couple that had invested with another treasure hunter (This couple died in a murder/suicide in 1993).
See: http://nwlink.com/~scpnwan/articles/10-24-98/filviolence.html for the real story of what happened or contact the Seattle Police Department, Detective Division at: http://www.cityofseattle.net/police/
In 1995, while Standefer was in Malaysia, Ryll accused other rival treasure hunters (Steven Edward Morgan and Michael Miering) of committing this same crime in numerous faxes sent to the Philippine Government. Also in 1995, Ryll wanted to file fake" rape charges against Morgan (Now Rylls partner and one of the financiers of the fake rape case) and a former employee of the salvage company, Kurt Schaefer, who had stolen a video camera from Ryll. Standefer put a stop to Rylls plans at the time.
Shortly after Standefers arrest in Jakarta, Ryll attempted to have yet another fake rape charge filled there. Along with a hired Indonesian Policeman named Dwi Atmoko and with his video camera in hand, they went to the home of Andi Natalia Syam and her mother. They attempted to coerce and threaten the two into filing a fake rape charge against Standefer. Ryll wanted her to falsely claim that Standefer had given her drugs and then had raped her. They refused to get involved in his conspiracy.
When Rylls NBI men delivered Standefer to Manila on May 11, 2001, there was a large contingent of paid reporters and photographers standing by at the airport and the NBI headquarters. Ryll was there after making a special trip to the Philippines and taking off from work. He had his girlfriend/wife (Belinda) videotape the whole two-hour procedure. During this time, Consul Paul Boyd, from the American Embassy had a confrontation with Ryll and asked about the phony NBI credentials he had been using in Jakarta and Surigao City. Ryll admitted he had used them, but stated he no longer had the fake identification.
The Embassy at that point told Ryll that he was not to be involved in the case in anyway, not to talk to witnesses, nor to go to any location that Standefer was present, or contact any government officials, as he was in no way involved in this case. Ryll completely ignored these orders and continued to interfere in every way possible. Ryll made dozens of calls to the Provincial Prosecutor Oscar Pospia, the Vice-warden of the Surigao Provincial jail (Who Ryll had paid to be his informant) to Niefelyn Sumaylo, her aunts, and other relatives. He had his partner, Tony Nasa, travel to Surigao City and to the island Niefelyn lived on and threatened to have Niefelyn and her aunt killed if they told the truth and withdrew the case. These calls and threats continued up until Standefers release and even now, Rylls men are trying to locate Niefelyn and other witnesses who are all in hiding.
A few months ago, Harold Karaka arrived in the Philippines and spent ten days there desperately trying to find Standefer (and Niefelyn Sumaylo) so he could kill him as he has promised to do on at least four occasions. He was offering $1,000 USD to Niefelyns relatives, friends, or anyone else would will give him her address.
The amounts being offered for Standefers address are MUCH more! Karaka, Ryll, Rylls Filipino wife Belinda, and Tony Nasa have made over a hundred phone calls to all of Niefelyns relatives and friends in the last few weeks, offering money to anyone that will tell them where Standefer or Sumaylo is now located.
They are telling the relatives that they want to pay Niefelyn just to talk to her", but at the same time are bragging that they have set-up a fake criminal case against her and are going to have her arrested. They want to have her arrested on the fake charge of accepting money to drop the rape case so the truth would be clouded. These calls still continued to come in from Tony Nasa when Ryll and Karaka returned to Los Angeles to look for Standefer there. On August 8, 2001, a new death threat email was received in Los Angeles from Kiy Dupont, who has been financing Karaka, Ryll, and Morgan for over three years. Ryll will be going to the Philippines before Christmas to continue his search for Niefelyn and treasure from the shipwrecks he and his partners have stolen from Standefer and his investors!!
Over 200 pages of additional information, NBC dateline letter, support documentation, witness statements, court documents, affidavits, emails, photographs, etc. are available by email or direct from the Internet web site listed below.
For Additional Information:
Dennis Standefer,
Email: Justicein2002@lycos.com
Fax: USA 1.425.928.6496
Justice In 2002 Websites for additional information and updates.
http://flash.to/justice
http://justicein2002.com
Or
http://justicein2002.org
The information posted on these websites includes the documents and evidence that Karl Steven Ryll, et.al, does NOT want you to see! He and his associates are doing everything they can to stop the distribution of this material to reporters, news media, law enforcement, and other interested parties. This includes the hacking" of our website(s) and deleting the information and sending viruses to our email addresses. This has been done on three (3) sites so far. We are now placing this website on a total of ten different websites, in three different countries, and we will soon have it on our own server. If you have ANY PROBLEM retrieving any of this material, just let us know by email and we will send it off as an attachment or give you the address of one of our other mirror" download sites. We will also have it all on an ftp site soon!
If you want any of the attachments not yet available on the Internet, just send a request by email to: justicein2002@lycos.com or send a fax to: 1.425.928.6496 (USA) with an email address and/or a fax number.
May 10, 2002
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